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Full Title: A map of the British and French dominions in North America : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to ... the Earl of Halifax, and ... the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations

"By their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell."
"This map was undertaken with the approbation and at the request of the Lords Commissioners for Trades and Plantations; and is chiefly composed from draughts, charts, and actual surveys of different parts of His Majesties colonies & plantations in America: great part of which have been lately taken by Their Lordships orders and transmitted to this office by the Governors of the said colonies and others. [Signed] John Pownall, secretary. Plantation Office. Feb. 13, 1755."
Dedicated to "To the right honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the ... Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations ... [signed] Jno. Mitchell."
"Tho: Kitchin, sculp. Clerkenwell Green."
Covers much of eastern North America, including the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, southern Labrador, the Altantic and Gulf coasts to Florida and Texas, and the Great Plains as far north as latter-day South Dakota.
Scale [ca. 1:2,000,000]
Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: London.
Inset (26 x 28 cm.): A New map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those coasts
Second edition issued with printed date of 1755, but published 1757 with extensive text added to Atlantic Ocean; see Stevens, Comparative cartography.
This copy imperfect; imprint trimmed away beneath neat line at bottom right.
Printed from 8 plates on 8 sheets; this copy sectioned into 32 panels and mounted on linen.
Folded to 37 x 26 cm in slipcase.

Mitchell, John, "A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America" ([London] : Publish’d by the author Febry. 13th, 1755 according to Act of Parliament, and sold by And. Millar opposite Katharine Street in the Strand, [1755 i.e. 1757]). VAULT folio Ayer 133 .M662 1755